"I'd rather be a cyborg than a god."

"to be an intellectual, to be a writer, it to wear a sign on your back saying I'm an enemy of the state."

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a guy who writes a lot of books."

"I'm a spiritual person. I believe in a higher power. I just don't know what it is."

"I write about characters who are trying to survive in a world that's going crazy."